The four seasons and me

As colorful as the changing leaves
And as sturdy as the forest trees
I remain standing amidst adversaries.
And enlivens when the cold season ends.

In the darkness of the cold winter
I fall like dust of twinkling star.
The fields I turn like frosted cake!
Delightful sight yet numbing inside.

Slowly the ice melts as the season shifts
As the warmer sun spreads its rays
Like waking up to the morning light
I begin to bloom, rebirth, alive.

Scorching in times I can be.
But I embrace you warmly.
Your rosy cheeks ooze with energy
With my bursting sunlight all is happy.

Reverie

How strong can a person be?
In the midst of oddity
In cruelty and betrayal
In the world where truth
Is hidden, evaded incessantly.

How strong can a person be?
Alone in darkness
Muted in silence
Muddled with hypocrisy
Drowned in temerity.

How strong can a person be?
When water flows freely
Gushing in deadens face
Gasping for breath, yelling
Where is peace, equality?

How strong can a person be?
Where only hope relies in Thee
At blinking stars and shining moon
To majestic rays seeping at dawn
And to flowers that bloom.

How strong can a person be?
When folded knees shake
And clasped hands moistened
With stiffened muscles
Heavy feet lift not a single step.

How strong can a person be?
An unanswered question
Like a myth, truth is unknown
How strong can a person be?
Relatively personal, no one can see.

Broken Record

It is sunny,
yet inside
pouring rain drains me
like wilted plant
I am soggy,
bereft with life
drowned in misery.

Endless stream
flows unceasingly
haunted by past, so uncanny;
like broken record
stocked, unmoved
plays repeatedly.

Strong wind, I pray passes
and drive, and swift
and take it away
break it to dust
spread like stardust
to nowhere it remains untouched.